Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our June 29th, 2026 rules committee meeting.

I am your chair, Supervisor Shimon Walton.

I'm joined by Vice Chair Stephen Sherrow and President Rafael Mandelman.

Our clerk for today is Victor Young, and I want to thank Jamie Escherry with SFGov TV for making sure that this meeting is publicized and made available to the public via broadcast.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Uh yes.

Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda.

Where item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line them to speak.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

Email them to myself, the rules committee clerk at BICTOR.

Yo-U-N-G at SFGOV.org.

If you submit public comment by email, it would be included as part of the file.

May also send your written comments via U.S.

mail to our office in City Hall 1, Dr.

Carlton B.

Goodlit Place, room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

Please make sure the silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of July 7th, unless otherwise stated.

That completes my initial announcement.

Thank you so much.

Would you please call item number one?

Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing one member term ending January 15, 2027, and one member term ending January 15, 2029 to the San Francisco Health Authority.

Thank you so much.

We have two appointments to review for the San Francisco Health Authority, and we're going to call these individuals up on the way they appear on the agenda.

And so let's start with Michael Chung.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Please tell us about yourself why you want to serve.

Absolutely.

Following the retirement of former CEO, Dr.

Jenzen, January 1st, 2026.

I was nominated by the hospital council of Northern and Central California for the hospital sees to the San Francisco Authority, Health Authority, and by the uh being a senior management position at Chinese hospital since 2020 as a CFO.

I'm qualified to serve on the board of San Francisco Health Authority.

Thank you so much.

And we will now call up Tangerine Brigham.

Chair, members of the committee, my name is Tangerine Brigham.

I am the chief operating and strategy officer for the San Francisco Health Network within the San Francisco Department of Public Health, which includes San Francisco General Hospital.

I would be appointed to the seat of representing uh San Francisco General Hospital.

I have been nominated by the Director of Health for the Department of Public Health, Daniel Sai.

I have extensive experience in Medical Managed Care, not only helping with the initial development of the San Francisco Health Plan, but in roles in Los Angeles County and in Alameda.

Thank you so much.

And I don't see any questions or statements from colleagues.

I do just want to thank both of you for being willing to serve and for your bringing your expertise.

Mr.

Clerk, would you please call for public comment on this item?

Yes, members of the public who should speak on this item.

Should I enough to speak at this time?

Each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this matter?

There are no speakers.

Thank you.

Seeing no speakers.

Public comment is now closed.

And seeing no questions or comments from colleagues, I would like to make a motion to move Michael Chung forward for seat two with recommendation and Tangerine Brigham for seat three, both with residency waivers.

Yes, on the motion to recommend for C2 and three with Rency waivers.

Vice Chair Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Member Mandelman.

Aye.

Mattelman Aye.

Chair Walton.

Aye.

Walton aye.

That motion passes without objection.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

And thank you both.

Mr.

Clerk, please call item number two.

Yes, item number two is a charter amendment, second draft to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to increase the amount of funding.

The city must appropriate to the housing trust fund each fiscal year that is used for the creation, acquisition, and rehabilitation of affordable rental and ownership housing for down payment loans and housing stabilization for certain households and for housing-related infrastructure.

Provide for a temporary freeze and temporary reduction in the annual appropriation in the housing trust fund under certain circumstances, extend the sunset date of the housing trust fund from July 1st, 2043 to July 1st, 2058, and delete obsolete provisions and elections to be held on November 3rd, 2026.

Thank you so much.

And colleagues, you may remember we continued this item because it was amended.

And I do want to welcome Supervisor Melgar, who got here this morning.

Thank you very much, Chara Walton.

I apologize for my lateness.

Muni was a little flow in the channel this morning.

Um I just want to say thank you for hearing this and the um extensive public testimony that we heard last week.

I want to uh thank the very diverse coalition of partners that we have worked with to craft this measure.

We believe it does so incrementally, fiscally, responsibly, uh, but also ensuring we have a proper foundation so that anything we add on on top of that guarantees our success and our planning for affordable housing as the infrastructure that it is.

Um I want to thank my co-sponsors, you, Chair Walton, and uh Supervisor Sauter, Cheryl Wong, Dorsey Mahmoud, and President Mandelman.

And I also want to thank Mayor Lurie for his support, along with his team, Ned Siegel, Ali Bondy, Ben White, Lee Latensky, Jacob Bintliff, Director Dan Adams, controller Greg Wagner, and the whole team at the controller's office.

Also, assessory quarter, Joaquin Torres, and his team Victoria Wong, and of course, Brad Rusty and Keith Nagayama, and our community partners, the Council of Community Housing Organizations, Quentin Meckie, Caroline Fang, the Community Land Trust, Saki Bailey, Kyle Smealy, the Nonprofit Housing Association of California, especially Bill Barnes, and the Housing Accelerator Fund, Rebecca Foster and Kate Hartley, the Mission Economic Development Agency, CCDC, Malcolm Young, Todd Go, Eric Towel, Mercy Housing, Mission Housing, Episcopal Community Services, Self-Help for the Elderly, Pinyun Residents Association, Firefighters, Local 798, the Building Trades, Carpenters Union, Local 22, and many others.

So we have staff available here if you there are any quiet uh clarifying questions since you last amended this, but I look forward to getting your support and to send this to the voters for approval in November.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Supervisor Melgar.

And for the record, you are not late, you were right on time.

So just want to make sure the public knows that.

We did have extensive public comment on this item, and I know we all did have words, so I will go to public comment on this item unless my colleagues see different, Mr.

Clerk.

Uh public comment or public comment, yes.

Yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time.

Each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

Are there any members of the public?

Uh good morning, Supervisors Bill Barnes on behalf of the nonprofit housing association in Northern California.

Uh, let me say this morning that it would not be possible for this to have moved forward without Supervisor Melgar's amazing leadership.

She was able to bring people together across ideological differences, across strategy differences, across geographic differences, to really build the broad coalition.

And that's when we do affordable housing, that's what it works.

When we have people who are progressive and moderate and uh slow growth and big growth, what everyone's in the same room together, we get a better outcome.

Uh and so this charter amendment really does build that foundation.

It will fund a variety of deliverable uh projects from uh traditional affordable to social housing to others.

Uh and so just really thank you uh to the supervisor for author her authorship and her experience in this area uh and each of you for being co-sponsors and uh let's go win this thing.

Thank you.

Are there any additional members of the public who like to comment on this matter?

There are no additional speakers.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no additional speakers.

Public comment is now closed.

And I too like our public comments or want to say thank you to Supervisor Melgar for your work on bringing everyone together and let's get this charter amendment approved, Mr.

Clerk, with that, I want to make a recommendation to move this charter amendment forward to the full board with recommendation.

Yes, on that motion.

Vice Chair Sheryl, Cheryl.

Aye.

Member Manelman.

Manelman Aye.

Chair Walton.

Aye.

Walton aye.

That motion passes without objection.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Thank you, Supervisor Melgar.

Mr.

Clerk, please call item number three.

Item number three is a charter amendment, second draft to amend the charter of the city in San Francisco regarding departments, boards, commissions, and advisory body updates.

Thank you so much.

President Metalman.

Thank you, Chair Walton.

Uh last week we heard this item and um offered some amendments.

And I don't think I have anything beyond what we said last time.

I hope we can forward this to the full board with positive recommendation.

Thank you so much, President Metalman.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Could I be added as a co-sponsor on this, please?

Yes.

Thank you so much, Vice Chair Sherrow.

And with that, Mr.

Clerk, we will go to public comment on item number three.

Yes, members of the public wish to speak on this item.

Should I have to speak at this time?

Each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

Eileen Bulkan, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhood, speaking on my own behalf.

Following up on my written submission.

Opposing unless amended regarding the SFPUC.

There has been an amendment to the title in summary.

Version 1.10 begins with expanding.

Version 2.10 begins with updating.

There is no indication in the text or BLA digest to that this amendment was made.

I would strongly oppose expanding the SFPUC's exclusive exclusive charge.

No other city department has it.

No water utility in the U.S.

or abroad seems to have it.

The current exclusive uh charge has made the PUC largely autonomous from the board's oversight and needs to be scaled back.

I'm urging that the PUC commission be expanded from five to seven with split appointments.

Commission expertise should continue to be required.

The PUCEGM should have direct utility expertise, industry expertise for no less than 15 years.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any additional speakers for public comment?

There are no additional speakers.

Thank you so much.

Seeing no additional speakers, public comment is now closed.

President Mendelman, would you like to make a motion?

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh I would uh like to move that we forward this item uh to the full board with positive recommendation.

Thank you so much.

Mr.

Clerk on the motion.

Yes, on the motion to recommend.

Vice Chair Cheryl.

Aye.

Cheryl Aye.

Member Manelman.

Aye.

Manelman aye.

Chair Walton.

Aye.

Walton aye.

That motion passes without objection.

Thank you so much.

Motion carries.

Mr.

Clerk, please call item number four.

Yes, item number four is a motion amending the board of supervisors rules of order by amending rule 1.3.3 in-person and remote public comment to conform to the rule with the public comment changes.

Adding a new rule 1.3.4, remote public comment disruption policy to adopt a policy for the Board of Supervisors to handle disruptions to remote public participation, adding a new rule 1.3.5 disorderly conduct by public commenters to codify the procedures around disorderly conduct by public commenters and amending Rule 3.8 public comment at committee meetings to prohibit committees from limiting the total amount of time for public comment on an item.

Thank you so much.

And I know we have a representative from the clerk's office here, Mr.

Lissa Sumira, but however, I don't believe we have any questions.

And I know there's no presentation.

I do want to say this is unfortunate that we are being forced to take on this policy.

Um I do want to say that I am 100% in support of residents and community and neighbors being able to have full access to our meetings and being able to uh voice their opinions and thoughts.

However, I'm not excited about people calling in from all over the world or other places that have no stake here in San Francisco calling in to disrupt meetings, and we've seen that uh a lot during the pandemic.

Um this is a rule that has been placed upon us by the state, and they don't follow the same rules.

They don't have public comment at their meetings.

So this is something that is unfortunate.

I want the public to know that we do provide opportunity for public comment for individuals with disabilities and through special um special opportunities to call in.

So we're not eliminating folks from calling in even without this policy, but this policy is before us, it is a state mandate.

Um, not excited about it.

Um I don't see any comments or anything for my from my colleagues.

I would like to move this forward without recommendation after public comment.

Mr.

Clerk, public comment, please.

Yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time.

Uh each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

There are no members of the public in the room.

There was one request for ADA accommodations, however, they have not called in yet.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

Uh I would take that as maybe they want to contact us in a different manner.

So with that, public comment is now closed.

And Vice Chair Cheryl.

I uh can I just ask a question of the city attorney here quickly for clarification.

So basically, are we required to allow anyone anywhere to just say whatever they want, hate speech, vile rants, all that stuff, like just because Deputy City Attorney Brad Russian the um state law doesn't limit um by geography who can call in remote public comment, and the same rules would apply to people who call in as people who speak in public.

They have to be speaking about something within the board's subject matter jurisdiction, and if they disrupt the meeting in some way, they can be removed if they meet a certain standard for removal.

And so I think in person we often have people who talk about things outside the board's subject matter jurisdiction.

Uh it almost seems like this behooves us to very tightly define the board's subject matter jurisdiction in order to make sure that um people are not misusing this public comment function.

Is that something the board has considered in the past to your knowledge or might be able to consider in the future, like pretty strictly delineating what is and what is not outside the board's purview?

That's something that we could look into.

It would definitely depend on a case-by-case basis, and because the board takes positions on many things, some which are outside of San Francisco, it um it would be we'd have to look at very carefully to make sure that we're not limiting the public comment too much.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

I just want to go on the record and saying I think this is incredibly stupid and thoughtless that the state is forcing us to do something they are unwilling to do, and it makes governance harder, and it makes being willing to serve in public office harder at a time when we should be increasing representation, especially from communities that have a lot of different things going on that may not be able to afford uh to pay for child care all night long.

Um, this kind of rule makes governance harder.

It makes it it it encourages potential candidates for public office to be wealthier.

It it discourages people who uh are like real people who have real lives from serving.

Um this is so thoughtless and so stupid.

Uh it does not increase public participation.

In fact, I think it will decrease real thoughtful public participation.

Um, Chair Walton, I think you are right to send it forward without recommendation.

I think we don't have much of a choice in voting for this.

I'm not looking to get a sued and waste city attorney money when we need to be fighting it back against the administration of Washington.

But this is really stupid that we have to do this.

Thank you so much for your comments, Vice Chair Sheryl.

With that said, Mr.

Clerk, I'd like to make a motion to move this item forward to the full board without recommendation.

As a committee report?

As a committee report.

Yes, I refer without recommendation as a committee report.

On that motion, Vice Chair Sherrill.

Aye.

Walton aye.

That motion passes without objection.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Mr.

Clerk, do we have any more business before us this morning?

That completes the agenda for today.

Thank you.

We are adjourned.

Thanks, Mr.

Chair.